Head Full of Clouds
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
FOUR STARRED REVIEWS! • From the award-winning author of Town Is by the Sea comes a beautiful and meditative story about seeing the world around you in a new way.
A girl wakes up from a dream she can't shake.
Her head is full of clouds.
When she goes outside, the things she normally doesn't pay much attention to suddenly reveal their beauty: the plants growing in the cracks of the sidewalk, the shimmering puddles, the notes from a violin drifting in the air. She revels in this strangeness of the familiar, and eventually her dream comes back to her in all its surrealness.
When she meets a friend, she feels solid and connected again, part of the world — but she doesn't lose the gifts that this strange morning gave her: the quietly profound wonder of the everyday and the joy of being present.
Joanne Schwartz's lyrical text and Afsaneh Sanei's gorgeous art are a dreamy pairing that will reward readers with something special in every read.
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Schwartz's poetic lines and Sanei's acrylic gouache, colored pencil, and digital artwork encourage attentiveness to the surrounding world in this dreamy picture book. Second-person prose presents the observations of a red-haired, pale-skinned protagonist who awakens with "a little leftover piece of a dream/ floating around." As the child ventures outside, a city landscape—puddles, plant-filled sidewalk cracks, pigeons—and simple encounters delight ("You bite into an apple./ It tastes so good you write a poem to it"). When the child arrives at a park, varied sensations propel toward an increasingly playful mood, leading to a joyful reunion. Playing effectively with light and shadow, surrealistic illustrations encourage close observing throughout. Background characters are portrayed with various skin tones. Ages 4–7.
